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By Matthew Russell Lee, Scope, song, II, song II

UN GATE, May 18 -- On Western Sahara, Inner City Press has repeatedly asked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, his spokesmen and now Communications chief Melissa Fleming about sexual harassment charges against his representative Colin Stewart, which it has exclusively reported as credited here and even here.

 Guterres has repeatedly refused to answer, and denied Inner City Press access to the UN he lets dozens of Moroccan state media into as he and Fleming continue the ban on Inner City Press supported by a frivolous complaint filed against Inner City Press' coverage from the UN Security Council stakeout. So, after the December 2020 developments, on SoundCloud this song, here.

  Now Morocco has threatened Spain for allowing Polisario's leader into a hospital:  Rabat summoned the Spanish ambassador on April 25 to demand an explanation and express concern at Ghali's admittance to a Spanish hospital, adding in a statement on May 8 that it was a "premeditated act" that would have repercussions. (Blinken's read out with Morocco's Foreign Minister did not even mention the issue).

  On May 7, as Guterres conducted a ghoulish one-man "debate" trying to giet a second five year term to sell out such places as Western Sahara and Cameroon and Haiti and Yemen and Honduras, he claimed that the two year lack of even a "persona envoy" Western Sahara does not, as it obviously does, reflect a lack of focus and a lack of efficacy." A sample write up: "On May 22, 2019, the UN secretary-general's personal envoy for Western Sahara Horst Köhler submitted his resignation for «health reasons». Since then the post remained vacant.   During these twenty-four months, the parties rejected twelve candidates, revealed Antonio Guterres on Friday, May 7, without giving further details, AFP correspondent at the UN in New York reported on Twitter.  Guterres explained that the delay in appointing a successor to the former German president is not due to a lack of efforts on his part.  Among the names suggested are the Australian Julie Bishop, the Slovak Miroslav Lajcak, the former Romanian Prime Minister Petre Roman and the Portuguese Louis Amado.   And since April 30, the Italian Staffan de Mistura has been added to the list of candidates." These are not serious proposals. Watch this site.

  On December 26, amid report of abuse below, Morocco trolls comically called out not only Inner City Press, banned for questioning Guterres not only on his support for colonialism not only in Western Sahara but also Cameroon, CAR and elsewhere, but also a UN insider, "The Plant," Abdel Hamid Siyam, here.

This guy is let into every UN briefing, usually only asking about one issue, entirely silent on UN ban of Press. But the trolls don't like his questions either, though when asked what secret (or "closet") meeting it covered, they reply "We don't need to remember the facts.. Everyone knows the story."

Yeah - sounds like Melissa Fleming.

So, this: Madrid (Spain), 26 December 2020 (SPS) - The League of Sahrawi Journalists and Writers in Europe has strongly condemned the barbaric aggression against Sahrawi activists in occupied El Aiun and Boudjdour by Moroccan occupation forces, expressing its unconditional solidarity with all the victims of Morocco's machine of repression.  In a statement released on Friday, the League condemned the aggression against human rights activist Sultana Khaya in the occupied city of Boudjdour, calling on the UN through the MINURSO (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara)." Fat chance - Fat Tony and his mission are totally corrupt

Guterres' role in orchestrating colonial lies, from Western Sahara to Cameroon, and censoring and banning independent Press and refusing its questions, is decisive. Here are just some of the Morocco state media Guterres and Melissa Fleming let in, and Steph Dujarric answers, from the UN Censorship Alliance (UNCA) --

Enhari Naoufal Moroccan News Agency (MAP) UN correspondent United Nations Secretariat Building Room S-0419 New York NY 10017 enharinaoufal@gmail.com Tel: 917-530-2673

Benyoussef Bouchra Quid.MA  Tel: (212) 758-6461 Mobile: (201) 873-5656 www.quid.ma @b.bouchra2001 -- "does not exist" (also a UN staff member - incredible)

There are more, and there will be more. Guterres should be fired.

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